ISLAND CITY CHORUS

GREATER MONTREAL CHAPTER

SPEBSQSA Inc

MINI PITCH

Date: May 28, 2001

COMING UP - ROB'S REQUIRED EVENTS*

Saturday, June 9, 2001 Our Chapter Show with Joker's Wild and After Hours at Salle Claude Champagne

Sunday, July 1, 2001 Canada Day Montreal West Celebration Details to follow

September 10, 2001 Guest Night ß Watch for details

September 21 -23, 2001 Fall Forward Fall Retreat Details to follow SAVE THE DATE

October 26-28, 2001 District Convention & Contest Lowell, MA Details to follow SAVE THE DATE

Saturday, November 10, 2001 50th Anniversary Cabaret Details to follow SAVE THE DATE

Saturday, February 2, 2002 Great Northern Harmony Workshop Université de Montréal

*NOTE: It is your duty to inform Rob as soon as you know you will miss any rehearsal or event.

COMING UP - OPTIONAL, BUT FUN and EDUCATIONAL EVENTS

June 2, 2001 Burlington VT Chapter Show featuring PLATINUM Hershel Pesner has tickets

July 1 - July 8, 2001 SPEBSQSA International Convention Nashville, TN

August 9-12, 2001 Harmony Explosion Fitchburg, MA

August 10-12, 2001 Harmony College Northeast Fitchburg, MA

August 18, 2001 Vocal Majority Show in Toronto Tickets available from Roy Thompson Hall ONLY

August 25, 2001 Wheaton's 10th Annual Corn Roast (Boil?) and Chocolate and Salad Party SAVE THE DATE ß NEW

June 30 - July 7, 2002 SPEBSQSA International Convention Portland, OR

June 29 - July 6, 2003 SPEBSQSA International Convention MONTREAL -ß Schedule your vacation, now!

We make a living by what we get but a life by what we give.

Dig out your Photos from the Past. Do you have some photographs among your souvenirs that will bring back some of our 50 years of singing? Please let Jerry Silverberg borrow them. We will have a couple of large display boards in the lobby of our show with photos of days gone by.

They don't have to be 50 years old! Last year or last week, if it is interesting, bring them in!

Have you sold your Show tickets? John Clendinneng tells me many members haven't yet taken tickets for the show. If this includes you, how much you are prepared to pay in dues to keep singing with this great chorus. The show is our largest fundraiser, by far. We need to sell ALL of the 1000 seats. Right now, we are sitting at half the seats taken. A ticket to our show is an easy sell. We have a great chorus and two great quartets headlining the show. Ask your friends to come. They will enjoy the show.

Even if you have taken tickets, you must sell them. Please do that. We ALL need to do our part.

Here is our current repertoire list:

Overture

Carol of the Bells

Harmony

Eight Candles

Didn’t We

Go Tell It On The Mountain

I Only Have Eyes For You

You'll Never Walk Alone

I’ll Walk With God

Steppin' Out With My Baby

Love Me and the World Is Mine

My Romance/It's You medley

I’m Beginning To See The Light

Orange Coloured Sky

Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?

(It's only) Words

Sixteen Tons

How Deep Is The Ocean

Scarlet Ribbons

O Canada

Intervals to sing by!

Major Second up

Doe-a-deer
Happy Birth-day

Major Second down

Ma-ry had a little lamb
Whis-tle while you work

Minor second up

You must remember this ('As Time Goes By')
I left my heart in San Francisco
Theme from Jaws (repeating two-note pattern)

Minor Second down

Shall we dance (from The King and I)
Ride a painted pony ('Spinning Wheel')
I know a dark secluded place ('Hernando's Hideaway')

Major Third up

From the halls of Montezuma
Have your-self a merry little Christmas
Well I come from Alabama ('Oh Susanna')

Major Third down

Swing low, sweet chariot
Good night, ladies
Summertime and the livin' is easy.

Minor Third up

Lul-la-by and good night(Brahm's Lullaby)
A time for us ('Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet')
To dream the impossible dream

Minor Third down

Look at me ('Misty')
Toot-Toot Tootsie, good-bye
Oh-o say you see ('Star Spangled Banner')

Perfect Fourth up

Here comes the bride
Day is done ('Taps' bugle call)

Perfect Fourth down

Born free
My girl, talkin' 'bout my girl (Motown hit)

Tritone up

Ma-ri-a (from West Side Story)
Bo-oy, boy, crazy boy (from flatted fifth or sharp fourth) 'Cool' in West Side Story)

Tritone down

European police siren (go see a foreign film)

Perfect Fifth up

Hey there, Georgy Girl
Rain-drops on roses ('My Favorite Things', Sound of Music)
Yo-ee-oh (War chant of the Wicked Witch's guardsmen in The Wizard of Oz)

Perfect Fifth down

Feel-ings, nothing more than feelings

Major Sixth up

My Bonnie lies over the ocean
Dash-ing through the snow ('Jingle Bells');
N-B-C (network chime)

Major Sixth down

No-body knows the trouble I seen
Gonna lay down my sword and shield ('Down By The Riverside')
0-ver there

Minor Sixth up

'Cast Your Fate To The Wind,' first two notes (Black Orpheus theme)
For Papa, make him a scholar (from 'Matchmaker' in Fiddler On The Roof)

Minor Sixth down

Where do I begin ('Theme From Love Story')

Major Seventh up

Ba-li Hai will find you (from South Pacific; first and third notes)

Major Seventh down

The last phrase of "So have yourself a merry little Christmas now."

Minor Seventh up

There's a place for us (from 'Somewhere' in West Side Story)
Theme from Star Trek (first two notes)

Minor Seventh down

Theme from American In Paris (first two notes)

Octave up

Some-where over the rainbow

Octave down

Wil-low weep for me

Practice is something we do at home, every day, between rehearsals!

Rehearsal is where we reinforce what we have been practising every day!

Steven Wheaton, President

Murray Phillips, Editor of the Mini Pitch